Eye guard or shield.



No. 845,696. PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907.

' H. S. COVER.

EYE GUARD 0R SHIELD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 15, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

HARVEY s. COVER, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

' l EYE GUARD OR SHIELD.'

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26. 1907.

' Application filed September 15,1904. Serial No. 224,580.,

Shields; and I do hereby declare the following I to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. p This invention relates to an eye guard or shield for firemen, metal workers, chafieurs, and others who are likely to be subjected to the action of fumes, gases, grit, dust, &c.

The invention consists in providing an eyeguard of a single piece of rubber, which has two lens portions connected .by an integral bridge-piece of greater flexibility than the lens portions, so that the lens ortions can be folded one upon the other w en not in use. Each lens portion-has an integral flaring and yielding flange projecting inwardly and terminating in a flattened cushion, which snugly engages the flesh around the eye, so as to exelude dirt, dust, grit, or smoke therefrom,

and the integral bridge-piece is so located and arranged as to form a recess for the bridge of the nose, so that the outer flange will engage the flesh at the side of the nose as well as at the top and bottom of the eye.

For a full understanding of the merits and advantagesof my invention reference is to be had to the following description and the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the eye guard. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation with they lens portions folded one u on the other.

Ma ing renewed reference to the drawings, 5 designates a rubber frame, which consists of two ring members 6, connected by an integral bridge-piece 7 and having at their outer ends integral tabs 'or lips 8, adapted for connection with an elastic band 9, that encircles the head to-hold the goggles or eyeshade upon the face. The ring members constitute lens portions, which are of such proortions as to form substantially a rigid lensame 10, the material (rubber) being thickened and possessing only a small amount of flexibility and having annular grooves or reof mica or other suitable material, which are constrictively held in the grooves. ing inwardly from each of the solid lens portions is a yielding annular wall 12 that terminates in an outwardly-reduced flange 13, that lies substantially in the same plane with the lenses and forms a flattened cushion for contact with the flesh around each eye. The inner surface of the walls of the ring members extends in a true transverse ,direction from the outer edge to about the center, as at 14,

gradually reduce the thickness of the intermediate wall 12 and the flan e 13, and thereioning efl ect of the flange 13. V

The bridge-piece 7, above referred to, preferably connects the ring members 6 near the outer side thereof or adjacent to the lens portions, so that a recess or cavity 16 is PI'OVlClGd for the bridge of the nose, thus permitting the flange 13 .to snugly engage with the flesh at the sides ofthe nose, as well as above and beneath the eye, and this bridge-piece is of greater flexibility than the rin members, so that the latter may befolded,w1th the bridgepiece as a hinge, upon one another, as shown in Fig. 4, a. convenient form for carryin the goggles in a garment-pocket and for pac 'ng in small boxes. From this construction it will be seen that the reduced thickness of the annular wall 12 intermediate the flange and the lens ortion produces a cushion, inasmuch as t e frame will yield transversely at that point and accommodate itself to the iroutwardly-fiattened flange 13 an increased face. Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An eye-guard embodying lens portions each consisting of a solid ring member having an integral annular flange projectingsubstan- Etially at right angles to the plane of the lens,

and gradually tapering in thickness and tercesses 11, into which maybe sprung lenses 12 and then flares outwardly, as at 15, so as to regularities of the face, and by means of the.

bearing-surface for the flesh is provided, thus preventing chafing or injury to the persons Projectby increase the flexibility an resultant cushminating in e fiat, yielding, outwardly-ex- 7 tending cushion which is disposed in a plane substantially parallel with the lens, and an integral bridge-piece connecting the ring members to provide a recess for the nose between the flanges and cushions, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARVEY S. COVER. 

